CKII is released.

You are welcome to try, heretic.

The Bosphorous will run red with your blood.

 

We will put a end to the Second Rome and her Perfidity!

An end! An End! FOREVER!

 

Never!

You will die, like countless of your forefathers before you!

We shall fight to the bitter end, and destroy you!

And then the Arab WAAAAAAAGH will come and overrun us both.

 

I want to be a Cyrus.

 

I wanna be Cyprus.

 

North Cyprus?

 

So grorious ;_;

Why must mudslims shit on everything that is good and glorious?

 

Warangian Guards and Excurbitores XI century AD. Plenty of Epic Slaughter and Glory after Musli came to party.

 

One more thing vikings can do that other pagans can't: form their own Caliphate.

 

Oh cool, you can preorder ToG on Gamer's Gate now and there are a bunch of new pictures, including a Seljuk invasion in 990. I guess that will make playing as a Zoroastrian even harder.

http://www.gamersgate.com/DLC-CK2OG/crusader-kings-ii-the-old-gods





this map........... THIS MAP!!!!!

 

627 and 1014 AD pictures. That emperor's hat ... so pimpin.

 

It seems Persia never gets a break. Conquered by Macedonians, Arabs and Turks. Twice devastated by Hulagu and Timur, it's a miracle they managed to survive for so long.

 

They are making a comeback though.




Those who insult islam, prepare your heads.

 

Modern day Persians are quite racially different to the Persians of antiquity. Wouldn't make sense for them to be using the Arab portraits at this point of time. I hope the Persians (and Eurasians of the Steppe) get distinct portraits, it makes more sense than Scandinavians getting them.

 

after trying some muslim games, i have to declare their mechanics are retarded and unfun to play as.
has to have 3 wifes or lose prestige, too many kids, not enough holding = arab sand ninjas assault your countryside.

 

Tips for playing Muslim characters:

1)Start with a small dynasty
2) NEVER EVER EVER give any family any land, unless they are your heir, even then I generally do not do it (because then you live forever and he gives out land to all his sons and they all breed more that way)
3) Instead, place your sons on your council, or kill them off
4) Don't arrange marriages for your kids (with the possible exception of your heir, only if he is getting up in years or you are concerned about the dynasty ending), you cannot inherit other realms (unless you go on one obscene murder spree, then maybe, but it is more trouble then it is worth) so all it does it make more people to drive up decadence
5) At succession, immediately imprison/eliminate all your brothers
6) When you do marry, go with a couple of younger wives (to make sure you do get a decent heir) and then a couple of older ones, or just bite the bullet on the prestige loss, as it doesn't add up to much

I'll post more if I think of any.

 

Wow. It's like you're roleplaying a Muslim. Very nice thorough research by Paradox.Very accurate rendition of muslim kingdom.

 

Yeah I found playing Muslims a bit too gamey (sorry sons, uncles, nephews, cousins can't let you get married and have kids 'cuse that would be decadent for some reason).

 

Yeah, decadence is a shit mechanic. They should have it tied to bad/good traits and had high levels of decadence result in poorer relations with vassals (resulting in faction wars) instead of some random doomstack appearing out of thin air.

 

Little surprise that the Muslim AI Kingdoms are falling apart at a rapid rate, you are literally punishing them for doing natural things like marrying off all their male heirs.

 

Speaking of wacky muslim successions, I remember that one Ottoman Sultan who was the last in line, and was placed in house arrest for his entire life.

Apparently, when he was the only one left, they had to drag him out by force.

Then, he publicly abdicated in favor of an extremely distant relative and went back to his room.

Said relative then ended up biting it.

So, they had to drag him out of his room again.

This time, when he was put on the throne, he immediately had everyone who pulled him out of his room executed, then went back inside after abdicating again.

They decided to let him stay in his room after that.

 

Soo....after Old Gods DLC ... Holy Orders?

 

I hope someone creates a mod for Buddhist Mongols.

 

You can try playing as that Orthodox Khagan actually if you search the starting date carefully, there's a Golden Horde with Orthodox Nestorian heresy.
Went pretty OP as expected if you do a religious cleansing at the start.

 

Lux Invicta has Indo-Hellenic Buddhists (and Hindu-Buddhists).